macOS starting Maestral on login always results in 2 menu bar items about maestral

[reagle]

Me too.

macOS 14.2 23C64 arm64
maestral: 1.8.0 via homebrew

[dsconnell]

Same.
macOS Sonoma Version 14.2.1 (23C71)
About Maestral: GUI v1.8.0, daemon v1.8.0

[samschott]

Two questions to debug:

1. Does one of the two GUI instances say "Quit Maestral GUI" instead of just "Quit Maestral" in the dropdown menu?
2. In macOS Settings > General > Login Items, does Maestral appear multiple times? For example in both the "Open at Login" and "Allow in the Background" sections?

[gabrielgorenroig]

Hi, I am also experiencing this issue. Answering your debugging questions. @samschott, in my system we have that

1. Both GUI instances say "Quit Maestral" in the dropdown menu, and
2. Maestral appears once in the "Open at Login" section and once in the "Allow in the Background" section.

macOS Sonoma Version 14.2.1
Maestral: GUI v1.8.0, daemon v1.8.0

[samschott]

Thanks for the info! The "Open at login" item appears to be the superfluous one. IIRC, only the item in "Allow in the Background" is created by Maestral through the checkbox in it's settings. If you go ahead and delete the first item, you should only have one instance running at startup.

[gabrielgorenroig]

Thank you @samschott! this seems to have fixed the problem for me.

[twcostain]

This has also resolved the issue for me. Removing the item from "Open at Login" and leaving the Background on fixed it after a restart.
@chrisridd suggest you try this and close the issue if it works for you :)